OCTOBER 31, 2023 – Search Me, Try My Reins

Search Me, Try My Reins
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Daily Reading – Jeremiah 16-19 / 1 Timothy 6
GOD’S WORD:
Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
GETTING INTO GOD’S WORD:
When God originally created man, He did so looking at us as a perfect creature. We were His perfect creation. To make us perfect, He gave us characteristics like His own. A mind to think with, the will to choose, and a heart full of emotions. In doing so, He also gave man the opportunity to mess up. So it goes, we did, and still do. Man’s heart, thoughts, and will have become corrupted by the sin which Satan introduced into this world.
The verse just before Jeremiah 17:10 says our hearts are “desperately wicked: who can know it?” The answer is, God. God knows our hearts even better than we do. He knows what we really desire. Our verse today says, “I try the reins.” What do reins do when put on a horse? They are used to direct this large animal to stop and go, or to turn left or right. What would be the reins of a person? Well, they would be the mind, or the heart of a person. Your mind tells you to stop doing something, or start doing something, or to go here or there. God knows the mind of every person.
So, ask yourself, what is it that your mind and heart really want? You can see the answer as God does by your ways. Where do you go? What do you do? Whom do you spend time with? How often does this include God? If you do not like the answers, maybe you had better get a firmer grip on the reins! Better yet, turn them over to God.
GETTING GOD’S WORD INTO ME:
As the day goes by, ask God to keep your mind on things that would be glorifying to Him. When you find your mind wandering, wander back over toward God. He is waiting for you to allow Him to lead.
When God searches your heart and mind,
does He find He has control?
“Getting people into the Word of God…
… and the Word of God into people.”
Romans 10:17
Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

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